barely fatal

Dragon Age so far has failed to fully immerse me in its story. Maybe it’s too traditional for my liking, maybe it’s too talkative, I don’t know. A colleague says he had no trouble with the fights and has finished the main story in two days. Well, I find the fights very challenging and it feels as if I have hardly scratched the surface after 3-4 days of play, but then again I tend to do every single side quest I stumble upon and have two weakly rogues in my party. I’ll give it another chance.

That being said, I haven’t played anything at all in the last two weeks, problems with my eyes when sitting in front of a screen for too long.

That includes Modern Warfare 2. The over-the-top single player feels a tad bit ridiculous, but the multiplayer is fun. Well, since I cannot select the maps I want to play, the matchmaking constantly forces me to play against groups of people 40 ranks above me, and I fear for the worst come the – probably costly – map packs, I can’t see me playing this for very long.

Christmas is approaching at an alarming rate. Already bought the train ticket home, but still had trouble getting one of the cheaper tickets. The pricing policy of Deutsch Bahn is as annoying and illogical as always. Amazon wish lists get sent back and forth, self-made cookie rations are announced, holiday plans finalized. The worst of all? Christmas markets. If it wasn’t for the Glühwein, I’d never set a foot on one. And this year not even that is gonna help it much, it having 17 degrees outside, and mostly rain. Climate crises or not, it just feels wrong somehow.

In other news I am thinking about launching a new, separate web site. Not a private one, but one covering my profession: Software Testing. It can’t hurt having some profile on the intarwebs, and there’s really not that many sites out there, the testing community is a small one. The big sites all talk about the theoretical stuff which is nice and all, but simply just that: theoretical. Since my company is trying new stuff, I have a few things I could talk about. Obviously I have to consider very carefully what I can write about without compromising any internal stuff, so I’m not sure yet if I’ll really try this.

So, my sister is going to come visit in a couple hours. First Christmas market of the year. I’d say last, too, but you know the old Klingon saying: Never say it’s the last as long as there’s still blood wine in the keg and a human alive.